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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps take Neal upstairs to bed?
(a) Jessie's mother
(b) Paul
(c) Mr. Maclean
(d) Jessie

2. What do Norman and Paul convince their father to do the next day?
(a) Take their mother shopping
(b) Begin painting the house
(c) Give an unpopular sermon
(d) Go fishing with them

3. The next morning Paul arrives at Norman's house to _________________________________________.
(a) help paint the house
(b) to go on a picnic
(c) go fishing with Norman and Jessie's family
(d) to get things ready for an auction

4. After Norman is married, he asks Paul to do him what favor?
(a) Help him move to a new house
(b) Take his brother-in-law fishing
(c) Help him tune his car
(d) Help him paint his house

5. What do the brothers and their father do at the end of the day?
(a) Grab some dinner before returning home
(b) Go to the bar for a few drinks
(c) Spread out the fish they have caught and take pictures
(d) Hike along the riverbank

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Norman and Mr. Maclean talk about while watching Paul fish?

2. What does Paul hope to avoid?

3. Why are Jessie and her mother tending to Jessie's brother?

4. Where does Paul suggest that he and Norman take the drunken Neal?

5. Who in the family remains an average fisherman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who goes on the fishing trip the next morning?

2. What do Norman's wife and mother-in-law finally realize about Neal?

3. Who arrives to surprise Norman and Paul at the cabin?

4. Neal declares that he wants to fish but what does he do instead?

5. What is Reverend Maclean's second passion after religion?

6. Which of the two brothers is the better fisherman?

7. How does Norman react to Neal's arrival a few days later?

8. Where do Norman and Paul escape from Norman's family problems a few days later?

9. What happens one night after Norman and Paul spend the day fishing?

10. On what is the story based?

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